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I don’t understand your point. Trump is the only leader who gave people the truth and was lambasted for it.
by secondcoming 5y ago
I don’t understand your point. Trump is the only leader who gave people the truth and was lambasted for it.
- dijit 5y agoI don’t think you can seriously argue in good faith that Trump ‘gave people the truth’, he said whatever came to his mind. Sometimes it was pure fantasy, mostly it was deflection. Perhaps sometimes it was truth, but only in the same way a broken clock is correct twice a day.
- dgb23 5y agoBoth the US and the Chinese governments downplayed and lied about the severity of the virus. For months.
- cocoggu 5y agoI don't know much about US, but for China it didn't last for months, 1 or 2 weeks maybe. It has been notified to the WHO at the beginning of January, on 23 January Wuhan was going full lockdown. And not lockdown like in the West, citizens were not allowed to step a foot outside even for groceries and the army was bringing rations to the people. I remember then in March, a French newspaper highlighting how PRC hid the severity of the virus... I mean if they took these extreme measures in Wuhan, it's certainly not for a mild virus.
- dTal 5y agoThat's a laughably generous take. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Donald_Trump#COVID-19_pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Dona...
- konfin 5y ago